Archives - 07 July 2017, Friday

Rep. David Cicilline, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has proposed the ban as an amendment to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by the House Armed Services Committee last month. The House is expected to take up the bill and deal with amendments n...

WASHINGTON — The United States will continue to pursue diplomatic options to tamp down tensions with North Korea following that country’s test on Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. “I do not believe this capability brings us closer to ...

Editor's note: The following is an opinion piece. The writer is not employed by Military Times and the views expressed here do not necessarily represent those of Military Times or its editorial staff. The military is faced with a fitness dilemma. The societal increase in obesity and d...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials on Friday announced plans to publicly list firings and demotions for any department employee as part of their pledge to bring more accountability to the bureaucracy. In a statement, VA Secretary David Shulkin said the move shows that his departm...

In the scenario Chicago’s mayor envisions, students from the poorest areas of the city, where many parents are often absent due to their work schedules, problems with the law, or other issues, children nearing the end of their senior year will have to head to a counselor’s office for ...

U.S. Stryker vehicles led a convoy of Kurdish reinforcements into the embattled Syrian city of Raqqa, according to Kurdish activists on the ground and videos posted on social media by the SMART News Agency— the largest Syrian opposition news outlet. The videos shed light on the extent...

The first month of summer may have brought an extra 200,000 jobs for Americans, but veteran employment took a slight hit. The unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans was 5.1 in June, up from 4.6 percent in May and the highest unemployment rate recorded for the group since January, ac...

U.S. aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush docked in the port of Haifa, Israel — the first such visit of an American aircraft carrier in nearly 20 years. The planned port visit was meant to "enhance U.S.-Israel relations as the two nations reaffirm their continued commitment to the collec...

Broad contours of how this new shift in the way war will be waged already are becoming clear. Technologies such as computer vision aided by machine-learning algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous decision making, advanced sensors, miniaturized high- powered comput...

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The liberation of Mosul from an increasingly cornered Islamic State is expected to be complete "within days," the top Air Force general in Iraq said Friday. In an interview with Air Force Times, Brig. Gen. Andrew Croft, deputy commanding general for Air, Combined Joint Forces Land Com...

President Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Matti s a $28.6 billion blank check. Scattered across seven d...

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Enormous supercarriers like the carrier Gerald R. Ford may be the future of the Navy’s fleet, but Congress doesn’t want the Navy to leave smaller, light aircraft carriers behind too hastily, reports Popular Mechanics . The Senate Armed Services Committee designated $30 million in its ...

HAMBURG, Germany — The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, three U.S. officials said Friday as President Trump held his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The deal marks a new level of involvement for the Trump administ...

Megacities and dense urban areas of 2050 will not be not monolithic constructs, nor will the cyberspace domain within them. The level of integration within a UA and the formality of the computer systems will fluctuate between and within UAs. At urban cores, cyber infrastructure may be...

Secretary Shulkin pointed to the move as another step in long-sought transparency and accountability actions at VA, and noted that VA is the first federal agency to make such data public. “Under this administration, VA is committed to becoming the most transparent organization in gove...

Despite rising stridency in Chinese demands that India pull back from the confrontation near the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan tri-junction, Indian troops are digging in to protect the strategic topography that is just 30 km from a hydel project and overlooks the Bengal-Assam road link. The hyd...

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Sailors aboard the destroyer Ross recently got the opportunity to take part in one of the Navy’s rarest line-crossing ceremonies when they headed into the Arctic Circle and became eligible for induction into the “Order of the Blue Nose.” In a ceremony also known as the “Northern Domai...

IoT-connected sensors and radars collect and transmit data on the position and movements of U.S. troops and adversaries, supplies, and inadequately secured networks can provide the enemy with this intelligence. “The benefits of IoT that make it attractive to the military also make the...

In a recently published book, “The Ranger Way,” Kris “Tanto” Paronto provides readers with extensive insight into what was going through his mind as he fought for his life and the lives of those around him on Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, and also breaks down those experiences i...

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It is an immense privilege to take command of the group for the next 12 months Commander Justin Hains Royal Navy, NATO Mine Counter-measures Group 2 For her new mission, the survey ship will be home to one of the UK’s most experienced mine warfare experts, Commander Justin Hains, and ...

CHICAGO -- Michelle Sanchez, a medically-separated Army specialist, was the only female archer to make it into the top eight in the 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Games compound bow competition, and the only female on the Army's gold-medal winning compound bow team. Throughout the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to a charge accusing him of trying to travel to Libya to join the Islamic State group. Authorities allege 20-year-old Aaron Daniels wired $250 to an Islamic State group operative in January 2016 and told an undercover informant he was in...

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2017 — The Defense Department today launched an online and mobile educational program to help individuals begin to recover, heal and build resiliency after a sexual assault. The self-guided program, called, “Building Hope and Resiliency: Addressing the Effects of ...

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WASHINGTON -- Over the past 15 years, the Army has rightly focused on winning the current fight, said Maj. Gen. Wilson Shoffner, director of operations for the Army Rapid Capabilities Office, known as the RCO. During that time, however, the nation's adversaries have invested in techno...

VICENZA, Italy — The Medal of Honor has always hung heavily around Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta’s neck. On Wednesday, he finally got to take it off. In a ceremony marking the 173rd Airborne Brigade’s new memorial to all the brigade’s soldiers who earned the military’s highest award, th...

Sri Lanka is on track to receive a new 105 m OPV from India in August 2017 Vessel will significantly transform the Sri Lanka Navy's operational capabilities Officials from the Sri Lanka Navy who are currently in Goa, India ahead of the OPV's official handover in August 2017. (Sri Lank...

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Imagine a range of worst-case cyber scenarios, rippling across U.S. critical infrastructure all at the same time. Across the country, system outages caused by cyberattacks disrupt hydroelectric dams, shipping ports and electrical power grids. Meanwhile, hacks into t...